# Can't people recognize an obvious troll anymore? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200 "2009-11-11T17:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/61 "2009-11-13T19:26:09Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > … > > That’s why it’s important to have people like **Dynasty** and **gonzomax** around - so we can see how the bottom half of the intellectual spectrum operates. Do.Not.Encourage. Do.Not… 🙂 > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **gonzomax** , addressing **xtisme** > You are the basest and lowest debater on board. > [@](#): > > Damn! Second place again! Relax, your primacy is secure. I don’t take **gonzo** ’s word for _everything_. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/62 "2009-11-13T19:38:19Z")
I think people seriously underestimate the amount of trolling that goes on on the internet. Just because you read something stupid elsewhere doesn’t mean that person was serious too. 99% (conservatively) of 4chan and 75% of fark is trolling. Same with youtube comments. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/63 "2009-11-13T20:00:43Z")
they need to do way instain posters\> who kill thier threddz. becuse thredd can’t frigth back? it was on the news this mroing, a troll in ar who had kill his three threddz. my pary are with the posters who lost thier sanity. i am truley sorry for your lots. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/64 "2009-11-13T20:16:09Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > Relax, your primacy is secure. I don’t take **gonzo** ’s word for _everything_. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Supremacy again! Woo-hoo! _terrorist fist bump_. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/65 "2009-11-13T22:02:09Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > they need to do way instain posters\> who kill thier threddz. becuse thredd can’t frigth back? it was on the news this mroing, a troll in ar who had kill his three threddz. my pary are with the posters who lost thier sanity. i am truley sorry for your lots. You win. Personally I don’t care if Dynasty was a troll or not that thread was an entertaining read. ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/66 "2009-11-13T22:36:35Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! > > Supremacy again! Woo-hoo! > > _terrorist fist bump_. > > Regards, > Shodan I feel your obsession. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/67 "2009-11-19T15:52:25Z")
At first I thought that he was a 4Chan troll, but either he was the top of that art form or he was really a dumb kid. I’m leaning toward a dumb kid. I teach some people who would write things like that. “Dumb” is like a Boston accent. It’s \*really \*hard to duplicate on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/68 "2009-11-19T17:59:04Z")
His OP seems believeable to me. I see shit like that from relatives in my inbox all the time, on Facebook, you name it. It didn’t quite go far enough for me to convince me it’s trolling. COULD be, but stupidity’s a pretty good explanation. As for the “you can’t be racist if you aren’t white” bit, that’s a very common belief. At my university it was, in fact, school policy; they came up with a two-page-long definition of racism that essentially reduced it to “white guys being mean to everyone else.” It’s not at all unusual to hear people say it, and they’re not often nuanced about it. So it MAY be trolling. But it also might not be. The question is this: What’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200/69 "2009-11-19T19:10:05Z")
> [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](#): > > If there is a single statistic being presented to you, and it is called the “average” the chances are extraordinarily high that it will be the Arithmetic Mean. You’re right that the other statistics exist and are used, but they’re not nearly as likely to be called the “average”. On average you’d be right, but there is no reason to be mean about it 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-people-recognize-an-obvious-troll-anymore/517200.md?page=3)